Peter sylvan-us bates



UNITED y STATES f PATENT OFFICE DETER sYLvAN-Us nA'rEs, or' YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIeNon vor THREE returns 'ro'EDwIN w. LoUcKs, or SAME PLACE.

nETTER-Box.

. i SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,956, dated'MaySl, 1898.

Application led November Z3, 1897. Serial No. 659,603. (No model.)

To all 1v1/hom' it may concer-'m partment, while outgoing mail is collected by 13e it known that I, PETER SYLVANUS the carrier by lowering the slide e. BATES, a citizen of the United States, resid-` In order to indicate that there is mail-mating'at York, Pennsylvania, have invented ter in the compartment, I provide transpar- 5 certain new and useful Improvements in `Lct ent plates above the flaps d, and I provide 55 ter-Boxes, of which the following is a specia pivoted lever orplate for cach compartment Iieation. 4 at l, one plate carrying upon its face the'word My invention relates to mail-boxes of the Mail and the other the word Collect class adapted to be applied to the door of the The .rear -ends of these plates l have a wire ro .residen/ce or olliec to receive the mail from connection leading to thebottom of the com- 6o the postulan; and it is intended to provide a partment, as shown at m,`and at this point y simple construction capable of receiving not they are connected to pivoted plates n, which only letters and newspapers, butlarger paekpractically form the bottom of the compartages or parcels, and I aim to make the box ment. 'lhus it will be seen that when a leti5` more complete byproviding it with two comter or other article is dropped into one eom- 65 partl'nents, one to receive the mail and the partmentor the other its weight will depress other to contain the 'mail to be collected-,and the pivotcd bottom-piate, and this will throw Y. Lalso provide indicators, so as to show when up the end of the upper plate and indicate the. compartments contain any matter, that the box contains mail. 2o whether of mail delivered or mail to be collVhen it isbdesircd to arrange the box s o 7o .,leted. that its contents can be accessible from the In `the accompanying drawings, Figure lis interior-of the room, I modify the construca front elevation of the box. Fig. 2 is a sec` tion slightly, asshown in Fig. 8, and in this tional view'from front to rear, taken verticase I provide a door at the rear of the box 25 cally. Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing theA to take out the mail, as shown at o, and in- 75 boit as located-in the inside of the door. stead of having the slide in front of the box lfy mplOVCd-f'box is made with compartdrop vertically I form grooves p, which direct ments, the. box proper being divided by a theend of the slide inwardly,so thatthe 'centrall partition a, which furnishes the comslide when open isin an inclined position. o partnent b for the incoming mail and, a com- ,lVhat I claim is#- 30 partment c for the mailto be collected. liv-A l.' A mailbox comprising the two front oted ilaps d close the entrance to thc comcompartments arranged side by side and propartments, and theseswing freely inwardly vided with suitable openings, acompartmcnt to allow letters-to be inserted. in rear of and cocxtensivewith said front com- 35 In order to permit the insertion of larger partments', said rear compartment being open 85l packages, I provide a slide e, which is locked at top and bottom, and flaps closing said open in a closed position normally, but which can toptand bottom, substantially as described. be opened by a key carried by the postman, 2. Y mail -box fcomprisingtwo compartwhich permits the slide to drop, thus disclosments with openings thereto, an indicatorfor 4o uglarger openings to thecompartments, and each compartment, a.movable slide'covering 9o' after the packages are inserted the slide is enlarged openings in each compartment, a

raised andthe openings closed. movable bottom-plate and connection there- In ordertoprovideferthereceptionofvnews from to the indicator, substantially as de,` papers and the like, I form a compartment scribed. Y 45 at the rear of the bok, having a pivoted top4 In testimony whereof I allix my signature g y, and a pivoted spring supported bottom in presence of two witnesses.

- plate 7L, which can be 'moved asidclto take PETER SYLVANUS BATES.v

out the papers. 'lhe mail from the compartvlVitnesses: ment can be taken out through a door 't' in -JOlLN A. lIOOnER, :o thc sldeopcniug into the incoming-mail coin- NVM. F. ltAMsAY. 

